of @the-wip-project‘s challenge!
Q66: What's the thing that you find super annoying about writing?
A66: Here are the top things that annoy me: 1. That my writing isn’t always able to capture what was/ is in my mind’s eye. 2. That the best ideas and wording often come to me when I’m driving and can’t pull over to write them down. When I do try to write them down, the words on the page never seem as good as how I imagined it in my head. 3. Being interrupted by life. 4. Pain in my hands after writing too much.
of @the-wip-project‘s challenge
Q29: What’s a common theme in your writing?
A29: Calm, quiet protagonist’s are a mess inside.
It is kinda exhausting and it sucks cause Clexa is like my safe place and it's always been there and so it sucks to see it hitting the fan a little but! I guess I'd prefer tea to an empty party if that's what we got for a while it's cool to see so many people sharing their thoughts too even if it's not the usual straight up Clexa. What are your favourite Clexa comfort fics?
I always loved the clexa fic: something suspiciously close to hope. It’s cute and very well written and i love clexa families
of @the-wip-project‘s challenge
Q30: Did your main characters change as you wrote them? Was that the plan or did they surprise you?
A30: Yes, some of it was planned but there were details that did surprise me.
Clarke
Ya know, an episode similar to the one on Ellen when Susan and Ellen kiss for the first time.
Scene Clarke and Bellamy have an intense moment, kiss and then pull apart with a funny look on their faces followed by this dialogue.
Bellamy Ummm
Clarke: Ahhhh
Bellamy: Did you feel anything?
Clarke (shaking head): Nope. No spark.
Bellamy (nodding): Yep, none.
Clarke (shrugs shoulders): Cool. So about those plans We are about to change 20 times in the next 42 minutes ....
So, as promised, here’s my list of lesbian movies for all of our lovely followers and the people you want to share it with. I hope I haven’t forgotten any good ones, but if you feel like that is the case, feel free to add movies to the list!
This is my gift for all of you, I hope you’ll like it ♥
/ Mod W
Tipping the Velvet
based on the book by sarah waters (she has written many lesbian books!)
it’s a bbc adapatation
technically a mini series but i like to see it as three hours of lesbian content heaven
it’s about this girl who falls in love with an actress and she goes to see her at the theatre five billion times until the actress notices her (that’s just the first part, other things happen to the main so watch the rest for more lesbian content~)
the main character (nan astley/king) is like… my fave. i love her.
the book is very good too!!!
honestly i have so much love for this movie/book i get all giddy just thinking of it
Bound
lesbian gangster/mob movie do i need to say more???
the main actresses are cute af (one of them is a butch lesbian!)
it’s awesome and very cool
(gonna trigger warn for use of lesbophobic slurs used by some characters/some lesbophobic violence)
Below Her Mouth
meh plot with amazing sex scenes basically?
a lot of sex scenes
i mean it like half the movie is graphic sex so if ur uncomfortable with that you probably shouldn’t watch it lol
all female cast
willa from wynonna earp!
The Handmaiden
also based on a book by sarah waters (called Fingersmith, there’s a bbc adaptation of it too which you should totally check out as well)
good quality movie right there
(putting a trigger warning here for sexual and psychological abuse and abuse in general)
Kyss Mig
one of few good swedish movies
basically about two step-sisters who fall in love (they’re not actually related i promise)
But I’m a Cheerleader
baby natasha lyonne is in this one! also i have a crush on clea duvall in this movie lol
a very cute love story tbh
good aesthetic
you’ve probably heard of it before but idc cause it’s great
(it’s like a satire of conversion therapy so if that’s something you can’t watch i don’t recommend this movie for you in particular)
If These Walls Could Talk 2
a bunch of famous actresses (like chloë sevigny, michelle williams, natasha lyonne, ellen degeneres, etc. etc.)
divided in three segments from three different periods in time
one segment is set during the feminist movement in the 70s and features chloë sevigny as a butch lesbian with a motorcycle do i even need to say more??
Anatomy of a Love Seen
this is about two actresses who were a couple when they shot a movie together and now they have to go back and re-shoot some love scenes but they’re not a couple anymore and it’s sad af
i have basically never seen this movie in any rec lists but it’s actually one of my faves and i cry so much to this movie tbh
Saving Face
this is a good one
also pretty funny tbh!
it’s about a doctor who falls in love with a dancer and the doctor’s relationship with her conservative mom
it’s kind of rom-comish
Lost and Delirious
warning: very sad like super sad?
it’s about a girl who goes to a boarding school and so happens to become roommates with a lesbian couple
teen angst squared and multiplied with gay panic
The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls In Love
you may have heard of this one but if you haven’t it’s time you watch it
that woman who plays tina on the l word is a butch-ish girl in this one
VERY CUTE and chill
every time i watch this it feels like this movie is the director’s BABY like it seems like she cares about this story so much and it makes the movie feel so genuine and lovely
i want every baby lesbian to watch this, please, it’s my gift to you.
D.E.B.S.
you may have heard of this one too but if you haven’t seen it yet it’s definitely worth a watch!
lesbian spies!
the heroine falls in love with the villain (that enemies to lovers trope tho!!)
Desert Hearts
old but good!
i feel like this movie is on most of these long rec lists but people probably don’t watch it cause it’s old but it is actually pretty good!
your classic “oops i thought i was straight but that woman is hot” story
Margarita With a Straw
indian girl figures out she’s bi when she goes to uni in new york and meets a lesbian girl
cute, funny, sad, it has everything tbh
The Hours (actually one of my all-time favorite movies/books!)
The Intervention
The Kids Are All Right
The Children’s Hour
Elena Undone
Fucking Åmål
Another good question from @the-wip-project on day 10 of this challenge.
1) how does a character react when a friend claims that their pet passion project actually belongs to the company they work for because it was created during company time?
2) what if the tower on an island in the river by my house became the only above water structure in this area by the end of the century?
Q56: What influenced you in a surprising way?
A56: This may sound odd but when I was in university and studying chemistry, full paragraphs or prose or full verses of poetry would pop into my brain. At the time, I interpreted this behaviour as my mind was tired of learning new things and, therefore, rebelled by outputting new things. Sort of an off gassing of creative thought.
A more recent influence is coding, in particular writing pseudo code to solve a problem. When I initially write down my wips’ notes, those notes have a strong resemblance to pseudo code.